Australia Day, January 26
This has got to be the closest thing to the Fourth of July anywhere on earth (it’s even summer Down Under), and Gourmet’s Australia correspondent, Pat Nourse confirms that “much beer is drunk” but also that plenty of people now grill fish, shuck oysters, and make chipotle pork cheeseburgers. However, he says,
“the classic old-school barbie scene hasn’t completely died out—the gals making the iceberg salads with supermarket tomatoes and the guys sinking tinnies of VB [downing cans of Victoria Bitter beer, that is] while turning and burning the T-bones.” Australia Day, though, is a kind of backward celebration of independence, commemorating as it does the proclamation of British sovereignty over the island, in 1778 (and, in some eyes, “the beginning of the destruction of indigenous Australian culture,” he says). “The 26th has also been dubbed Invasion Day, and protests over aboriginal-rights have become a regular sight in recent decades.”
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